Deck Planters Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Deck Planters Improve Your Outdoor Living
By Joel F Morningstar
Deck planters can be placed on the deck of your home, to increase
the variety of colour in your outdoor living space. You may have
your outdoor furniture, and you may need to add a little variety
and style to your outdoor decor. You can grow a number of plants
in deck planters. Some may hold flowering plants, vegetable plants
or even small fruiting trees.
You can ensure by placing the deck planters in a design, the
planters and the plants blend with the decor and the surroundings
in your yard. You may want some privacy, so you place deck planters
in a strategic area, to prevent people looking at you, as you
go about your household activities, or while having a nap on a
comfortable chair on the deck.
There are many design options and many ways you can improve the
outdoor living space, once you decide to add a deck to your home.
Deck Planters For Better Outdoor Living
Adding a deck to your home provides a new dimension to your outdoor
living space. The deck becomes a place to entertain, sunbathe
or just kick back, relax with a book on a chaise lounge and enjoy
the view. Once your deck is built, stained and furnished with
a table, chairs and perhaps the barbecue grill, you’re ready to
enjoy.
However, you may find something lacking. Just as in your garden,
plants and flowers seem to make the deck a bit more homey and
gracious. Deck planters provide a way to add color and a harmonious
mood to your deck. It becomes even more pleasant to dine outdoors
with a bountiful display of flowers alongside your table.
Deck planters which contain a small patio tree provide shade
and beauty as you relax for a nap in summertime. If you’d like
to enhance your deck with planters, it’s easy. You can buy them
at any nursery, or if you’re handy, it’s a great DIY project.
Marking Locations Of Your Deck Planters
Whether you choose to buy or build, you’ll want to make your
design plan first. You can use garden design software or simply
sketch your deck dimensions on graph paper. Mark the locations
of your deck furnishings and sketch in locations for your proposed
deck planters.
You’ll want to consider views of the garden beyond the deck,
so that you don’t obscure the view of garden elements you want
visible from the deck. For example, if you’ve got a lovely bed
of gladiolas, design your planters accordingly. Conversely, if
the trash cans are outside the kitchen at the end of the deck,
improve the view by placing a planter on that perimeter.
Calculating Height And Length Of Deck Planters
Consider also the dimensions, both height and length, of each
planter according to the type of plant you want in that location.
For example, let’s say you’d like to form a u-shaped configuration
around your patio table and chairs for a more intimate dining
atmosphere.
You’d like to plant bright annuals here. Calculate the height
of these deck planters such that the flowers will be at eye height
when guests are seated. Make your design accommodate any other
features you may want, such as space between the planters to set
out citronella candles.
Placing The Deck Planters In the Best Position On Your Deck
When making your design, it’s best to keep some consistency of
height in planters occupying areas in close proximity. For example,
if the planter which is going to conceal the trash cans at the
end is three feet high, it will look odd to have another planter
at the same end of the deck which is just one foot high. Garden
software allows you to easily visualize how your design will look
once installed.
It’s also helpful to consider your design from a seasonal standpoint.
If you plant bulbs for spring and annuals for summer, consider
how your design will work in fall and winter. Your deck can be
a beautiful garden all on its own. It’s all in the design.
Using Professional Builders And Architects To Design And Build
Your Deck
If you take all these design aspects into consideration, then
you will have a better idea of the final look of your deck. You
may not have time to create the design and build the deck and
decide where to place the deck planters. You can always look for
professional builders who specialize in deck and garden design.
Show them your sketch drawings of your design and they can give
you their ideas and then can come out with a pleasant result to
meet your needs and requirements.
There may be a number of reasons you need a deck. You may want
to entertain guests in an outside space, with wicker furniture
and lots of deck planters to add colour and shade to add style
to your outdoor decor. You may even look at using different aspects
of lighting. You may need different lighting with citronella candles
to keep insects from attacking the food on the table.
The height of summer and the cold of winter, can both be used
to entertain your guests on the deck by adding style with deck
planters.
About the Author:
Joel F Morningstar has written a number of articles on gardening
and landscaping including Backyard
Landscaping, Miniature
Fruit Trees, Pepper
Plant, Coffee
Plant, Front
Yard Landscape, Lawn
Swing, Fast
Growing Trees, Stone
Walkway, Big
Backyard, Deck
Ideas, Swing
Set Backyard, Outdoor
Decor, Lawn
And Garden, Design
Landscaping, Lawn
Care, Lawn
Garden.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
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